News: Worst Transpo Bill, Des Moines Transit Tax, Better Cities, Mortgage Downpayments, Safest City, Small Business Lending Fund
February 3, 2012
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| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. |
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National: LaHood - Worst Trasnpo Bill in Decades Transportation Nation It's not just the advocates who hate the new transpo bill. So does Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican Congressman from Illinois... Read On |
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Des Moines: Increase in Property Tax Approved Des Moines Register Des Moines-area property owners could see a 15-cent increase in the tax levy for mass transit after commissioners overseeing the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority on Wednesday OK'd including the increase in the agency's budget... Read On |
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National: Save America with Better Cities KPCC NPR Felix Salmon has an interesting post today about how China has managed to keep it together depsite very trying economic times. The bottom line? Healthy investment in urban infrastructure. .. Read On |
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National: 60% Buyers Wouldn't Put 20% Down on House Time Magazine To prevent a repeat of the housing debacle of 2007-2010, when some 5 million homes were lost to foreclosure, federal agencies are considering a mandate that would require borrowers to put 20% down before being OK'd for certain mortgages... Read On |
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International: How Istanbul Became Safest City The Atlantic Cities Political observers have recently been trumpeting the Turkish Model, citing Turkey's democracy, its open-minded Islamists and economic zip as an example to newly liberated Arab nations and other Muslim countries... Read On |
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International: Spanish Develop First Recycled Bollard A to Z Materials ECO-RUBBER, a European project, has resulted in the development of the first eco-innovative recycled rubber bollard. .. Read On |
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International: High Streets and High Tech Cities Joburg OU may have read or seen in the media that Mary Portas was appointed in May 2011 by the British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead an independent review into the future of the UK "high street"... Read On |
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National: Small Biz Lending Fund Created Crain's New York The merchant bank Next Street has partnered with financial services company Citigroup Inc. to create Next Street Opportunity Fund, a $30 million pool of lending capital for inner-city, high-performing small businesses... Read On |
